Former Times Editor Goldstein remembers JFK

November 22, 2013

By

Gerry Goldstein

The hand-signed, family Christmas cards from the White House seemed an anomaly at the weekly Narragansett Times, unceremoniously tacked up as they were in the tiny, cluttered office of publisher Fred Wilson.
A 22-year-old, I was cutting some journalistic teeth at his homespun newspaper, having signed on post-Army during the holidays of 1962. Thatâ€™s when Fred put up the last Christmas greeting Jack Kennedy would ever send him.

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